The return home: Transitioning from a 28-day remote outdoor education programme
The research stresses supporting students through the transition home after a long outdoor programme, including assessing learning through project work.
Research, reports and guidance on education outside the classroom and outdoor education, with a plain-English summary of each and a link to the original. New items are added every week.
The library began with Education Outside the Classroom: Applied Research Readings 2010–2017(McNatty & Boyes, University of Otago, 2017). Later items were found, summarised and checked with AI assistance using the same method: every reference is checked against the publisher's record, every summary against the published abstract, and only items rated high confidence by two independent relevance checks are published. Summaries are a guide: read the original before citing it.
Research library
12 items
Experiencing the different everyday on an international school-led trip: A New Zealand example
The chapter reflects on how young people on international school trips develop autonomy and learn, using views from students, parents and school leaders.
Creating a temporary community? An ethnographic study of a residential fieldtrip
An ethnographic study follows how community feeling changed for three teachers and students on a week-long residential fieldtrip.
Learning Away final evaluation report
An independent evaluation finds residential learning has a positive effect on engagement, achievement and relationships.
Which social emotional competencies are enhanced at a social emotional learning camp?
A Singapore secondary camp improved competencies such as self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, relationship management and responsible decision-making.
Investigating the impact of field trips on teachers' mathematical problem posing
The article shows how field trips and professional development activities shaped teachers' ability to create meaningful maths problems.
Five days at outdoor education camp without screens improves preteen skills with nonverbal emotion cues
After five days at an outdoor camp without screens, preteens improved at reading nonverbal emotional cues.
'Did you enjoy your holiday?' Can residential outdoor learning benefit mainstream schooling?
The paper examines how residential outdoor learning relates to mainstream schooling in Scotland and how qualitative and quantitative studies fit together.
Place-responsive pedagogy: learning from teachers' experiences of excursions in nature
Teachers became more sensitive to place through collaboration, planning visits and practice, and the authors propose a theory of place-responsive pedagogy.
Woven into the fabric of experience: residential adventure education and complexity
The paper asks how pupils change after a residential adventure education experience and how that change relates to what they experienced.
The experience of body dissatisfaction and body change behaviors among young adolescents in an overnight camp setting
The study looks at peer dynamics around body consciousness on camp and suggests ways to prevent body dissatisfaction.
Using handhelds to support students' outdoor educational activities
A pilot gave handheld computers to Year 12 geography students on a field trip and produced recommendations for using them in fieldwork.